Ukraine slides into chaos as the prospect of all out war re-emerges

The recent bout of in-fighting within the Kiev junta has been accompanied by warning’s from the IMF that Ukraine must do more to deal with the massive problems of corruption before it receives any more loans. The in-fighting between the various oligarchs and their political puppets within the Rada reflects the failure of crony capitalism to deal with any of the pressing economic, social and political problems facing Ukrainian society.

The deepening political crisis within Ukraine reveals how the promised benefits of turning towards the EU and America have failed to materialise. Many Ukrainians have been taken in by pro-Western propaganda that loans from the EU/IMF and a free trade agreement with the EU would bring major social and economic benefits to an impoverished population.

A cursory look at the the progress of Ukraine’s economy since the ‘Maiden Revolution’, reveals how hollow the promises made to the beleaguered population have been. Since 2014 the Ukrainian people have experienced a 22.2% collapse in real disposable income.

Meanwhile, unemployment has risen to over 10% as a vicious austerity programme has been initiated under the auspices of the Nobel Peace Prize winning EU and its partner in crime the IMF. The poverty rate in Ukraine has mushroomed to a 24.2% of the population according to the UN Development Programme.

As if this was not bad enough, the EU and IMF are insisting that the Kiev junta go much further in bringing the country towards Western style social democracy by cancelling energy subsidies and proceeding to the whole-scale privatisation of the country’s public assets. A recent IMF report published on 8 March 2016, laments the fact that the privatization of public assets is moving at a such a slow pace. You can just imagine Hedge fund hyenas and other Western financial criminals drooling at the prospect of getting their hands on Ukraine’s portfolio of public assets which are estimated by the IMF to be worth $72 billion.

The IMF bemoans the fact that,’Public assets continue to have a negative fiscal impact’ upon the government’s finances. This is code for the junta to get a move on and let Western asset strippers come in and buy up Ukraine’s public assets at knock down prices. The IMF report bemoans the fact that endemic corruption is leading to some state assets being sold cheaply to Ukrainian oligarchs.

It is against this backdrop of economic collapse and political in-fighting between the various oligarchs and their political puppets in the Rada, that sets the scene for a renewal of hostilities in the Donbass region of Ukraine. The so-called Minsk 2 ceasefire has utterly failed to solve the desperate problems facing the people living in the People’s Republics of Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR).

It has not brought political stability to the rest of Ukraine quite the opposite. The Minsk 2 ceasefire agreements are used by the gangster-capitalists ruling in Kiev to continue their misrule over Ukraine by diverting ordinary people’s anger and dissatisfaction towards the so called ‘frozen conflict’ in the south east of the country.

On the one hand you could argue that a renewal of all out war seems unlikely considering Ukraine’s vassal status towards the EU.

The Kiev junta is being exhorted by EU leaders to fully implement the Minsk 2 peace agreement which involves a constitutional amendment giving the DPR and LPR special ”decentralized status” within Ukraine. The old adage he who pays the piper calls the tune comes to mind. After all the EU has loaned 11 billion euros to Ukraine and formed a free trade agreement with Ukraine that effectively gives the EU control over Ukraine’s economy. You would expect the Kiev junta to act like obedient puppets after hearing their masters voice and fully implement the Minsk 2 peace accords and get on with rooting out the corruption that is endemic within Ukrainian society.

However, the Kiev junta is getting a different message from its American sponsor. Last year the U.S. Congress passed the Ukraine Freedom Support Act that increased sanctions against Russia and gave Obama the authority to increase U.S. military aid to the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF). There is strong bipartisan support within Congress to greatly increase military aid to the UAF to include so-called ‘lethal aid’ and ‘defensive’ weapons.

Obama claims that he does not want to provide such military aid to Ukraine for fear of escalating the situation and provoking Putin into further acts of ‘aggression’. Yet Victoria Nuland Assistant Secretary of State, who helped organise the coup that overthrew Yanukoich in 2013, told Congress in March of this year that the U.S. has already provided $266 million in military aid which includes non-lethal aid such as 30 armoured Humvees. Nuland said that the U.S. Army has plans to increase the training and equipping of the Ukrainian army over the next year. It is worth bearing in mind that in February 2015 Lieutenant General Ben Hodges revealed that a battalion of U.S. troops was in Poland training the UAF in how to operate against Russian artillery fire and electronic warfare.

Poroshenko has made it clear that he has no intention of implementing the Minsk 2 peace accords. He recently declared that,” Returning of Donbass under Ukrainian control is crucially important. No compromises will be accepted.” He has stated unequivocally that the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk will be returned to Kiev’s control by the end of 2016.

The ultra-nationalist groups that make up the fight club otherwise known as the Ukrainian parliament may well be divided and bicker incessantly amongst themselves over the spoils of state. One wonders where have all the billions in aid from the EU-IMF-U.S. disappeared? However, there is one issue that they all can unite upon and that is the desire to crush the DPR and LPR and return the whole of the Donbass to Kiev’s control.

The gangster capitalists, who pull the strings in the Rada, are keenly aware that the Ukrainian public is getting very impatient with the grim reality facing them on a daily basis. The collapse in living standards, with much worse to come as the global economy enters a downturn, is creating the conditions for an explosion of public anger and an uprising against the gangster capitalists looting the country.

The Kiev junta face a dilemma. Toe the line from their EU-IMF masters and face a suspension of the cash flow or go to war to stave off revolution from below. The threat from an angry, impoverished populace combined with its ultra-nationalist agenda is leading the junta in the direction of all out war against the breakaway republics in the Donbass region.

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine gathers information from its 600 observers throughout out Eastern Ukraine and the DPR/LPR. They produce daily reports on the military situation. It is quite clear from analysis of these daily reports in late March and April that there has been an intensification in the fighting between the rebel militias and the UAF.

The majority of the so-called ”ceasefire violations” relate to intensified fighting in and around the border between the Donetsk People’s Republic and Ukraine. On 24 March OSCE observers reported over a hundred explosions near Donetsk airport while on 31 March they recorded 445 explosions in Yasynvata in the DPR. As each days passes the reports note intense firefights involving small arms, heavy machine guns and artillery ranging from mortars and automatic grenade launchers to MLRS rockets.

The intensified fighting is leading to a steady stream of civilians fleeing the combat zone. On 29 March monitors observed over 600 civilian cars fleeing the DPR across the border to Russia and Ukraine while 450 people crossed by foot.

More ominously, the OSCE monitors report a growth in the number of minefields created by the UAF. On the 30 March the daily report stated that its monitors, ”continue to observe the marking of mined areas” all around the DPR and LPR.

The UAF seems to be an army on the move as the daily reports make numerous comments to the movement of heavy weaponry that is,”In violation of withdrawal lines”. On 31 March it was noted that 18 towed howitzers (152 mm) were observed being towed around outside their storage sites while on the 7 April it was noted that 3 anti-tank guns, 6 self-propelled howitzers together with 5 120 mm mortars were in violation of withdrawal lines.

The clincher that the UAF is preparing for some kind of offensive are the numerous examples of UAF heavy weaponry that is missing from designated permanent storage sites.

Recent reports note that large numbers of tanks and heavy artillery pieces are missing from their permanent storage sites. On 6 April it was noted that 62 tanks (32 T-72 and 30 T-64) and 9 anti-tank guns (D-444 85 mm) were missing from their storage sites. If the UAF was in compliance with the ceasefire regulations then why is such a large quantity of heavy weaponry missing from its designated storage sites?

This movement of heavy weaponry suggests that the Kiev junta may well be gearing up for a major offensive this spring in a desperate last throw of the dice to crush the breakaway republics and shore up crumbling public support.

The old maxim that when all else fails take them to war seems to be uppermost in the minds of the Kiev junta.

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Thank you Saker for this analysis!
The two Republics cannot be defeated by the junta, Russia must help them both with equipment and soldiers. There are with the ukros NATO soldiers and mercenaries, ISIS and Turkish, …it is another Syria. Could this be one of the reasons President Putin strategically withdrew from Syria? And how much does the present Russian administration believe in the possibility of the removal of sanctions? And finally, do they need their removal?
According to the answers to these questions, this time they may decide go to Kiev.

Obama and Biden have no morals whatsoever if they condone, let alone encourage, such savagery. And for what? To humiliate Russia and Putin? Ukraine is no gain, it is no prize. It is a huge liability for whomever controls it and the savages that inhabit it.

There is a link to an article talking about the defense minister of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak’s announcement of upcoming personnel cuts and re-certification of the ministry’s officials.
What sort of army would start a war if their ministry is paralyzed by personnel cuts, re-certification, polygraph testing and other similar important activities?

You have to understand Ukrainians, they categorically don’t want to fight any kind of war. Their superiors are being paid by NATO, according to the last year confession of Saakashvili. If they refuse draft, they are being jailed. They have punitive battalions behind the regular troops, ready to shoot anyone who tries to escape. Americans are sending to Donbass more and more so called internationals, or mercenaries from every corner of the world, but mostly Turkish and ISIS terrorists.

So, what the Ministry of Defense does in this critical moment, when NATO concentrates troops and heavy weaponry in Donbass? They went out and factually declared that everyone is fired under claims of reforms. The Ministry of Defense is completely paralyzed, with the exception of their twitter account, of course.

If you ever studied the history of the Great Patriotic War, you know about sabotages of German troops on the occupied territories. It was when people who were captured by Germans and forced to work, were doing something completely opposite. Germans even called them “stupid” for not “understanding” and doing wrong things.

Another issues, about weaponry “missing” from their storage sites. In Ukraine “missing from the storage sites” can mean literally anything, from “it never got there in the first place” to “I found it and that’s why it’s in my barn.”

The end of Ukropistan has been announced and predicted so often, I cannot remember.
Previous articles on the Saker blog used much higher values for inflation, energy price increases and the demise of the Ukro economy.
This article here appears to base its numbers on official Ukro statistics which are probably tweaked, polished and tuned.

The real question many including myself are wondering about: Why is there no new Maidan?
If I wondered in 2008 how these smiling friendly (many of them are really good people) Ukrainians manage to pay there bills, now I really have no explanation at all anymore – it is a mystery.

What you state about Ukrainians increasingly resisting NATO orders and the defense ministery being paralyzed – interesting. Let’s hope it is true.

But here is some evidence from cassad that shows how desparate Sakashvili is (everybody should see the video, watch his body language) :

We are tired of waiting and hearing empty promises, while the old corrupt system step by step takes revenge. Ukraine needs urgent and radical reforms. The powers of the President to ensure these reforms. We have a number of requirements which are indispensable for a healthy development as the Odessa region, and the whole Ukraine.
We demand:
To form a government of national trust without dogovoryakov government, who will trust the Ukrainians;
Remove the secessionist oligarchs and prihvaostnya Stoyanov from his post as chief prosecutor of the Odessa region;
Immediately initiate a criminal case on the separatist, the mayor of Odessa Truhanov, due to its offshore companies and Russian citizenship;
Dismissed the head of the SBU and GFS as those who do not work for the benefit of the people of Ukraine and engaged in frank robbery and banditry;
We do not intend to wait, we change this or to that authority or without it!”””””

The irony is (as was mentioned here before), this Georgian “Ukrainian” war criminal who hates Russia so much and sees in everybody around him a potential “separatist” – which language is he using all the time … :

There is no new Maidan (yet) because if someone started one, this time around they would be brutally and lethally suppressed. Last time around they gathered momentum because the protesters were willing and able to use more violence than the government. When the government is brutal and ruthless, the “Maidan” doesn’t start until pretty much everyone is maximum upset with it and the armed forces themselves have pretty much had enough and so don’t really defend the regime.
At the rate the Kiev regime is going, we could get there yet, but things have to be really bad.

Even at the worst of times, it helps if nobody really believes in whatever outside threat the government has been conjuring to distract attention. Terrible governments can last a long time if the outside threat to their country is real and credible; e.g. North Korea, which IMO is held together largely by the very real threat of US and South Korean attack. This is perhaps one reason Putin has been very careful about not leaning on the Ukies too hard. When things go from total crap to beyond absolute total crap, when the army can’t be paid any more and the starvation starts, there will be no credible story blaming Russia for it or pointing to Russian attack, so (a) The regime will have a hard time holding itself together on that basis and (b) If Russia needs to step in and rescue the place they will be able to position themselves as the saviours, like “You got into the European and anti-Russian schtick and look what it did to you, but blood is thicker than water and you are still our brothers, so we will get you back out of it”.

It amazes me to see and read comments of Putin coming to the rescue of Ukraine. It clearly demonstrates that some posters only accept what they wish to see, rather than what the reality is.
And that people is Putin has stated categoricly now many times, he has no intention of “rescuing” the Ukraine in any fashion, shape size or form, EVER.
The situation they are, was created by THEMSELVES, and needs to be resolved, BY THEMSELVES, rooting out the corruption and reforming their economy.
Russia is not in a position to economicly take over the financial disaster that the Ukrainians themselves have constructed.
What is it, with the above, that some posters simply cannot understand ? Or, are such posters clandestine tools of the Western Governments working to convince people it’s all Russia’s fault, when clearly the fault is all Ukrainian Corruption.

All a matter of what one means by “rescue”. Is he going to invade in order to save them from themselves? Certainly not. Is he going to take over in the event of a power vacuum and impose a “Marshall Plan” of some sort? Almost certainly not. But at some point the current regime is going to fragment.

If popular discontent propels a new government to power which repudiates the oligarchs and the fascists, Putin would be a fool not to extend a friendly hand to the new formation, try to help them with reconstruction, lend them money as an alternative to international financial markets if they default on their European/IMF debts and so on. Overall, both make sure the new government has reason to be friendly rather than hostile to Russia, and help it survive since forces backed by the Nuland types will be making every effort to take over again. And my point was, it will be much easier to help out and get closer to some future not-ideologically-hostile Ukrainian government if he doesn’t do hostile things now which the average Ukrainian will hold a grudge over forever. And he seems in point of fact to have been very careful about this. I’m assuming he is precisely looking to a future in which the zealots have lost power, Ukraine has economically collapsed, and he doesn’t want a hostile failed state on his border.

Obviously no one wants a hostile failed state at their borders, but we should be careful as to what we can and should do: (a) as Eddy correctly pointed out, we are not in the position to rebuild Ukrainian economy; (b) any help to Ukraine is going to be tough to sell domestically, since after years of economic support via gas discounts and then credit, what have we gotten in return? Hate and rabid Russophobia. Russians are painfully aware of that.
Not that our Ukrainian policy was brilliant: it was heavy-handed and naive. Still, there was real financial support. And when you loan $3b from your national wealth fund to support a state that then turns hostile and defaults, well you would think twice about doing that again. I hope.

The possibility that NATO-GCC will attempt an escalation on ALL fronts of the Global Hybrid War against Russia before the Russian Parliamentary Elections in September is a distinct one.

That will almost certainly include the Donbass Front. We can also add Nagorno-Karabach, Syria and maybe some provocations around Crimea.

Russia has stabilized the situation after the Imperial onslaught against her between 2013/15 and has even made significant gains on several fronts, while the NATO-GCC Empire only manage to carry out “spoiling attacks” such as those in Donbass and Nagorno-Karabach.

The months leading to the Russian and US elections will be crucial. We are in for more turbulence.

the western financial system is crumbling by the day you have to remember this. Peope always speak as if the US, the IMF, the EU are this all powerful organisation who can do as they please, In reality they are not, capitalism has failed in the west, continuous QE and record levels of govt and personal debt are the only things keeping the whole thing on life support. Once it collapse for good the US the EU all of them will have no time for war in europe, they will struggle to maintain their military commitments, so for Russia this is partially a game of waiting and attrition. Russia is better placed to survive and rebuild, collapse in the US will set off a chain reaction which involve the whole of the west and hundreds of millions of already angry and disposessed people will revolt. It may not be a french style revoltion but it will take all western time and money to contain the growing problems. God knows why the Ukraines where so stupid to think they should be part of this ess in the first place. More dire warnings from the IMF today also

Don’t bet your house upon your wishes. You speak as if this so-called collapse is imminent. That it will come in the very near future. Though many of us wish and hope for these sort of occurrances, it will not occur tomorrow or in 2016. Or in a year or two. The US/NATO evil doers still have lots of bullets to use.

It is informal Foreign US policy that that Ukraine never stop genocidally fighting it’s own Russian Ukrainians.

For instance Russia Insider news has a documentary on Putin done by the Kremlin to show ans I began watching. After the first section no other sections were there, all five I believe, had been removed from You Tube. Factual news is not US allowed. There is to be no competition to US unending propaganda or your life is over as you knew it. No matter who you are. US complete control is more vital than life itself. The definition of a virulent mania.

I think the junta is quite content the way it goes now in the East. They get to let the nazis have fun murdering people in Donbass as much as they want to. And it keeps them happy and away from them. They make the US happy by antagonizing Russia. Without the fear of Russia responding. They also get to keep the sanctions on Russia by doing nothing to implement Minsk 2,while blaming Russia for it. And the more “frozen war” they have going on,they get to rally the fascist nationalists to them.Since all the junta elite actually wants is more money for themselves. They are satisfied with the status qua.Unless they, or some of their stooges go overboard with their attacks. And enrage the NAF too much, so they respond themselves. They could keep this little war going for a long time. The Armenian-Azerbaijan fighting,off and on,has gone for many years now.So the precedent is set for Ukraine to follow. Kill a few citizens and militia whenever they like. And claim they are just protecting themselves from the “big bad” Russians. The US and EU will accept that lie,so they have no worries on that front. Its only the economy that is a problem for them. But as long as they serve the West as the “anti-Russia” they will continue to limp along. So unless the Ukrainian people decide enough is enough,or the NAF decides enough is enough. We could be writing these same type posts for years in the future.

The Kiev Junta is not after war. The reason they are going to war is two-fold:

a) To please their NATO masters.

b) To appease their own Nazi supporters and also keep them occupied.

Obviously, a) is far more important then b).

The Kiev Junta’s main aim/hope as well as that of most Maidanites, was that they would become the Israel of Eastern Europe. Lavishly funded and supported by the West in order to keep Russia in check. West obviously does not have the money to make an Israel out of the Ukraine. It’s usefulness is only short-term.

In my view, NATO seems at a loss of how to handle Ukraine going forward. On the one hand, they would like to keep Ukraine as a battering ram against Russia. On the other, they don’t want to incur the massive costs that go along with it. So, their short-term tactic (they obviously do not have a long-term strategy vis-a-vis Ukraine) is to try and maintain control of Ukraine in the cheapest way possible and hope that it will not collapse on them. If it does collapse, then they may choose to shift their attention on encouraging separatist groups in the West and also withdraw all financial lifelines, leaving the costs for Russia to bear.

To your “on the one hand . . . on the other hand” I would add that, on the third hand, NATO et al. have of late years proved absolutely incapable of reining in their vulture capitalists even when important strategic interests would be served by doing so. Every time they get control of a country and theoretically would want to build it up some so as to use it against its neighbours, pacify the locals to get a workable regime and so on, powerful interests insist on sucking it dry through privatization, wall-to-wall corruption and so forth. So with Ukraine, while military strategists may want a Ukraine that is capable of being a thorn in Russia’s side, the vultures want to make money by turning it into Greece, rendering it down for whatever of value might still be left in the country, and they are getting what they want.

The richest of all Europe’s Presidents, Petro Poroshenko, has refused to return the Chernobyl veterans’ benefits and pensions. The President put his veto on a bill, which was recently adopted by the Verkhovna Rada. Information regarding this appeared on the Parliament’s official website.

According to Petro Poroshenko, the costs of this kind to Chernobyl victims are too exorbitant and will unbalance the country’s budget.

It is reported that Poroshenko sent the law back to Parliament for revision. In addition to this act, the President was supposed to return to Parliament a list of changes that he would like to see in a new legislative act.

Recall that the law vetoed by the President intended to return Chernobyl veterans priority rights for the free provision of sanatorium vouchers or compensation for the cost of independent sanatorium treatment. In addition, the act was returning benefits to the relatives of the Chernobyl veterans of the 1st category accident, regardless of the cause of death from the Chernobyl disaster. Thus, in particular, minor children and/or spouses of the deceased Chernobyl veterans of the accident of the 1st category, regardless of causation of death from the Chernobyl disaster, have had privileges enjoyed by the deceased, as well as a one-time lump-sum compensation for the loss of a breadwinner, and future monthly compensation.

In his proposals to the law, Poroshenko noted that the proposed document does not align with the uniform policy of the state in reforming the system of privileges, compensations, and guarantees to separate categories of citizens by ensuring their demands, taking into account the average monthly income of a family.

“Statutory changes will result in additional expenses from the state budget of Ukraine (according to the forecast calculations of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, the implementation of the law will require annually an additional expenditure from the state budget of Ukraine to the amount of 1.5 billion hryvnias) and, in the absence of the appropriate definition of sources of budget revenues, budget constraints, and significant downward pressure on the economy of the state, the state budget of Ukraine would become unbalanced,” stated the proposals cited by “112-Ukraine”.

As a reminder, on March 23rd, Chernobyl veterens blockaded Grushevsky Street in front of the Cabinet.

They demanded that the Cabinet of Ministers return their social payments, benefits, and pensions, which they must pay by law. The protesters said that now they receive up to $2500, and that is their “pension”, and that by law they should be 6-10 times the minimum wage depending on the “Chernobyl” degree. The protesters also demanded the return of children’s benefits that were also cancelled recently.

Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada have began collecting signatures for the impeachment of President Petro Poroshenko. The creator of the document, according to RIA Novosti, is the leader of the parliamentary faction of the Radical party Oleg Lyashko and his party.

Previously, Lyashko announced his intention to initiate the procedure in connection with the information about Poroshenko’s involvement in offshore schemes.

In early April, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published documents about offshore accounts resulting from leaks from the Panama legal company Mossack Fonseca. In the archive are the names of the 12 heads of state and hundreds of famous people, among which are former UEFA President Michel Platini, the head of Argentina Mauricio Macri, the Prime Minister of Iceland Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, the family of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, the star of “FC Barcelona” Lionel Messi, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, and others.

“It is an official statement about this was made from the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, where in respect yet the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk conducted a criminal investigation into the receipt of bribes in the amount of three million dollars.

The information was provided in response to the request of the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Dmitry Dobrodomova. In response, the deputy pointed out that the production was made this year, and is registered in the GPU March 15th. The case is currently at the pre-trial investigation stage.

According to the materials of the criminal proceedings, Yatsenyuk, being at the head of the Ukrainian government, received a bribe for the appointment of Vladimir Ishchuk CEO of Concern broadcasting, radio and television (public broadcasting operator, microwave and satellite communication).

“And now, the GPU has confirmed long-standing suspicions that odious official was appointed without competition is not accidental. October 7, 2015 opened a criminal proceedings against Yatsenyuk obtain undue advantage – in the amount of three million dollars for the appointment of the CEO Ishchuk concern “, – said the deputy Dobrodomov.

Recall that a couple of months ago, Ukrainian media reported about a private party, in which the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk, celebrated their “earned” the first billion dollars.”

“Ukrainian radicals promised to “put a bullet in his forehead,” the President of Ukraine in connection with the recent offshore scandal. The “right quadrant,” said that if a new revolution, the country’s president Petro Poroshenko will not be able to escape from the country, it will wait for “the execution in a dark cellar.”

“Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee rejected a draft resolution on the severance of diplomatic relations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. This was announced by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Aryev.”Group-radical and populist deputies suddenly wanted to break off diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation. It was at a time when most tense internal situation. Actually, such a move is still possible, but above all, it must be timely! Then, when it is consistent and well-prepared solution of all foreign institutions and governments. And when a powerful weapon for self-praise and shouting, it is only as stupidity or deliberate sabotage will not name. The Foreign Affairs Committee has just six votes returned to the consideration of this draft resolution, and then dismissed it “, – says deputy Vladimir Aryev on your page to Facebook.

Recall a draft decision on the severance of diplomatic relations with Russia has been registered almost a month ago, on March 15. Its authors are active maydanschikov and now deputy Oksana Korchynska, Yuriy Shukhevych-Bogdan, Oleg Petrenko, Igor Lutsenko and Vladimir Parasyuk. All of these “political figures” is widely known in Ukraine of its inadequate.

Pani Korchynska, for example, with only a high school education, became famous for the fact that contributed to the parliament a bill to rename the Russian Muscovy and the severance of diplomatic relations with Russia. A pan Parasyuk known massacre that periodically arranges anywhere, anytime, and even kidnapping!’

People’s deputy of Ukraine Vitaliy Homutynnik said that the loss of population and business from the reform of the banking system, the NBU carried out by the head, exceeded $ 7 billion. According to him, the policy of “cleansing”, announced by the National Bank as the reform has become simply “sweep” of the banks – as a result of the banking system 35% of the banks had been withdrawn over the past two years.
“For such depositors NBU policy has already turned into a financial loss at more than 130 billion hryvnia. Taking into account the average exchange rate of the dollar over the past two years at a rate of 18 hryvnia, the loss of natural and legal persons in the abandoned bank accounts, account for nearly $ 7.2 billion “, – says Vitaly Homutynnik column for Forbes. He also predicts that this amount could double after the banks will be transferred to the Deposit Guarantee Fund, which now introduced a temporary administration.

“The total amount of the loss is equal to the volume of loans received by Ukraine from the International Monetary Fund over the past two years. Let me remind you that for the sake of $ 11.2 billion, Ukrainians continue to “tighten their belts” to pay many times more for utilities and pay out of their pockets new government taxes. It can be assumed that the current situation – is the result of the incompetence of the NBU leadership and management. But judging by the action sequences more like willful destruction of an entire sector of the economy, because of which hit hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian families and thousands of entrepreneurs “, – said Vitaly Homutynnik.”
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All day April 12, negotiations continued on the composition of the new Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which should lead the current parliament speaker Vladimir Groisman.

Negotiations have stalled: Groisman was tough nut to crack and zhelaetimet government “his people” and not offered by even the president Poroshenko and almost ex-Prime Minister Yatsenyuk.

This was announced on social networks MP from the faction “Block Poroshenko” Sergei Leshchenko. “Talks on Cabinet Groisman gone in a remote corner. Today, nothing will happen. Groisman and Bankova arguing over who will appoint ministers loyal, “- he wrote.

Many Ukrainian deputies were noted in social networks with their comments about the “choice” of the next government and the next prime minister. Total said the essence boils down to is that this is another “dogovornyak” and “cabal” in authorities – resilient tradition of so-called “elite”, which stretches more of the ’90s, when formed criminal-oligarchic state Ukraine.
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The US recently rejected Kiev’s request for assistance in the preparation of a sniper APU, as such assistance is considered offensive skill, and Washington’s policy is aimed at training of Ukrainian law enforcers defensive skills, writes USA TODAY reporter Jim Michaels. Failure of this is associated with a single purpose – to avoid further escalation of the conflict and not to tease Moscow, the article says.

“In Ukraine, where there is a widespread decline in industrial production, there is an industry that shows an enviable growth: production of alcohol, based on which makes the vodka, which is popularly called, not without humor, “liquid currency”

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Ukrainian businessman, co-owner of the corporation “Industrial Union of Donbass”, which is from March to October 2014 served as governor of the Donetsk region, Sergei Taruta slip Kiev reporters that the business of the main Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov holds the balance.’
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The morning of April 12 at the bridge over the river Kalchyk was found dead of an elderly woman aged about 70 years. Visual inspection of any traces of violent death were found.
The preliminary finding, which was made by experts, – the woman committed suicide, the causes of which it is not difficult to guess. Living in Ukraine for many retirees become unbearable, not enough money nor food nor medicine. In fact, the new Ukrainian government offered to the elderly and the poor conditions that are not compatible with life.

If, before the Maidan on the level of suicides Ukraine exceeded countries such as Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and even Russia the share percentage was ahead, but now the country of victorious Maidan came out on top in Europe. Since December 2015 also been an increase in teen suicides. Increasingly commit suicide warriors of the so-called “TAU”.

Last year alone, and only according to official statistics, suicides more than 170 soldiers of Armed Forces of Ukraine. The actual numbers of suicides in Ukraine carefully concealed. But if we take for example Kiev, then in 2014 there took his own life 39 people, and in 2015 – already 52, a 13% increase. Analysts say the same about the growth observed in other regions.’

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Bloody murderers prematurely released the so-called “Savchenko law.”
According to this “law” one day in prison, equivalent to 2 days of jail time. And since most malicious and sometimes bloody crimes investigated by more than one year, until the accused is sitting in jail, many restupniki killer already “served” his sentence. Held in jail for three years, it turns out that the “spent” six years. In fact, under the amnesty and were dangerous recidivists who previously could not and hope for parole (parole).

Since the beginning of the year 5600 will have released dangerous criminals in Ukraine. Of these, 821 persons were serving sentences for murder, 843 – for robbery, in 1310 – for theft, 640 – for drug trafficking. And then – “small things.”

If we consider that today in Ukrainian prisons hold 65,976 prisoners, then we can say that the freedom of the Send every eleventh. And this process is gaining momentum.

Analysts predict the end of 2016 a sharp rise in crime, and because it is high today. According to Valery Kura, which in the dashing 90’s served as chief of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine GUBOZ management and today is known as the “Kiev Commissioner Cattani”, this legislative initiative is paid for by the criminal authorities, serving a sentence in prison.

Savchenko The law applies to all persons, in respect of which entered into force conviction at the time of its publication, but the punishment for which is not totally departure. The law came into force 24.12.2015.”
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In the Kherson region shrinks a lot of Ukrainian military equipment. And it is deployed in places where it should not, in principle: in establishments near residential buildings directly in the garden. These days the only locality Chaplynka arrived four settings MLRS “Grad” and four new BTR crews. In the Kherson region shrinks a lot of Ukrainian military equipment. And it is deployed in places where it should not, in principle: in establishments near residential buildings directly in the garden. These days the only locality Chaplynka arrived four settings MLRS “Grad” and four new BTR crews.
Militants of the territorial battalions mock people. They brutally beat 18-year old boy, groundlessly accusing him of separatism. Thrive robberies. One of the local residents of the same Chaplynki stole 18 sheep. And the people made it the eastern appearance.

The locals in a panic: on the one hand, people fear growing number of representatives of Muslim countries. Before the eyes of Kherson terrible pictures IGILovtsev crimes. On the other, afraid of the uncertainty in the future, whether it will be possible in such an environment to grow and sell the next harvest. After all, rates for petroleum products is constantly growing. People, especially young people, massively flee the region. A degree of discontent Kiev regime has increased too.

Militants of the territorial battalions mock people. They brutally beat 18-year old boy, groundlessly accusing him of separatism. Thrive robberies. One of the local residents of the same Chaplynki stole 18 sheep. And the people made it the eastern appearance.

The locals in a panic: on the one hand, people fear growing number of representatives of Muslim countries. Before the eyes of Kherson terrible pictures IGILovtsev crimes. On the other, afraid of the uncertainty in the future, whether it will be possible in such an environment to grow and sell the next harvest. After all, rates for petroleum products is constantly growing. People, especially young people, massively flee the region. A degree of discontent Kiev regime has increased too.”

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Officially part of the Kharkov region is included in the ATO zone. For this reason, the area does not spare funds for the management of military spending. As the chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Igor Rainin, this year from the regional budget for the implementation of programs of territorial defense and counter-terrorism is allocated 5.7 million hryvnia. With 3.5 million (more than 60 percent) more than the 2015 year.
Legitimate questions: what, Kharkov in the past year become 60 percent better life? Reduce unemployment? To improve the condition of roads and social services? Everything is exactly the opposite! But money generously allocated for the resettlement of landfills, to ensure territorial battalions form and power, maintenance and repair of military equipment.

Actually, the so-called anti-terrorist activities comes the lion’s share of military spending in the region – more than three million hryvnia, which will be spent together with the SBU.

Parallel blown war psychosis. The local media are full of reports about the ongoing near the Ukrainian-Russian border, the concentration of Russian troops allegedly preparing to throw at Kharkov.

Costly war psychosis Kharkov …”
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It appears as part of the Nazi regiment “Azov” has its own group of “brilliant” design engineers. It is said to have developed their own “revenge weapon”: a tank “Tirex”, supposedly able to compete with the latest Russian tank “Armata”. And this is done on the basis of an ordinary T-64.’
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Head of Public Relations of the Central Customs Administration of the Federal Customs Service said Catherine Anchiporova cho transit confectionery from Ukraine to Central Asia was closed at the initiative of Rospotrebnadzor, and their letter was already created order.
A letter from Rospotrebnadzor explanation came last week, and not any additional measures are not taken.
Sweets Ukraine banned for a long time and get into Russia should not, including as a transit cargo.
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Bundestag deputy, member of the Interparliamentary Commission “Ukraine-Germany” Karl-Georg Welman during switching from Berlin said that Ukraine is ready to provide about 100 billion. Euros of financial assistance, but only after the necessary reforms.
He said that he proposed to make Ukraine a kind “Marshall plan”, but as long as it is not applicable due to the lack of reforms in the country. “We are ready to help, and my proposal was to make something like a” Marshall Plan “- more than 100 billion euros.. While 30 billion. Euro is already there, but the money can not be used, because Ukraine does not carry out reforms. There will be no money without reforms. That such a condition, “- said Karl-Georg Welman.
He also added that in Germany are disappointed lack of reforms in Ukraine, fundamental among which he called the reform of the judicial system. “Independent judges, independence of the prosecutor – this is the first. And we need to really get a significant European reforms in Ukraine. We need a robust structure, reliable government, “- said the member of the Bundestag.’
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Lawlessness in the Army APU, related to the corruption in the higher echelons of power, the full expansion of personnel, hard drinking, which often leads to criminal histories, including murder, bullying, and reluctance to participate in the civil war, prompted the leaders of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence to organize another law enforcement authority in the department – military police. This Tuesday, April 12 at the briefing said Speaker Alexei Chernobay MOU, reports BNN correspondent.
“The military police will be the law enforcement agency responsible for the arrangements for the prevention, detection, suppression and pre-trial investigation of crimes directed against the order of military service, theft and other offenses in the Armed Forces of Ukraine”, – said Mr. Chernobay.

Currently, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine has prepared a draft law on the Military Police of Ukraine. The Ministry clarified that the tentative date of its introduction – the end of 2018.

“The existing system of pre-trial investigation authorities in the zone ATO does not ensure effective and prompt investigation of war crimes, which adversely affects the combat readiness of military units”, – the speaker said MOU.

We note the need to establish the Military Police of Ukraine discussed with foreign advisors at the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
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Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov said that Ukraine should be part of an effective system of air and missile defense (NMD) in Europe. This was reported by the press service of the National Security Council.
“Today is an important task to strengthen the defense and security of our country is the restoration of a missile shield Ukraine should protect yourself and become part of a reliable efficient system of air and missile defense in Europe -. Impenetrable to missiles and aircraft”
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Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Ian Tombinsky said that the European Union plans to launch a new funding program for Ukraine, but a lot of money may remain unused due to lack of relevant Ukrainian projects.
“The European Union is helping Ukraine means to build elements of a self-government. It is nearly 180 million euros in available programs that we have launched in the past five years. We plan to launch a new program, but a lot of money and will stay with us, because there is no Ukrainian projects, which you can use the money.
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Head of the Odessa Regional State Administration Mikhail Saakashvili has put forward an ultimatum to President Poroshenko, the failure of which he said would lead to the departure from office of the so-called reform team. He stated this at a press conference on Monday evening.
“No promises about reform, this after the Maidan was not fulfilled We are all led by the nose.”, – Saakashvili said, noting that expressed their discontent in the recent telephone conversation with President.
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Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk decided before his resignation close sea fishing ports Crimea and Sevastopol due to “inability to exercise, maintenance of ships and passengers of freight, transport, field work within the framework of Ukrainian legislation”.
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The former leader Yarosh of a neo-fascist organization “Right sector” called Odessa authorities give Ukrainian nationalists weapons so they could physically eliminate separatists, who prevent to live.——————————————————–
Ukrainian media write: residents desperate lack of money and unemployment. To buy at least some cheap clothes, they go to the second hand, but there have to “fight” for every penny. Today in Ukrainian cheap clothes shops “from Europe” there are even fights between buyers.’
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An opinion was expressed by Ukrainian political analyst Pavel Ivanov in an article published on the website of TV channel “112 Ukraine”, in which he sums up the work of the prime minister for two years.
GDP Ukraine during the premiership of Arseniy Yatsenyuk declined by almost half, the national currency depreciated by almost three times, and the level of total debt is now estimated at 80% of the main indicators of the national economy.’
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I’m sure I saw an article that Ukraine has in its army 450 generals, a much much much higher proportion/ratio than other countries, and the article questioned why they all seemed to have a chestful of medals…sighs, can’t find it again.

Minister of Finance recently issued a tax declaration for 2015. “Country” are interested in, from whence her teenage daughters obtained from abroad income of $ 56 thousands (or 985 thousands of UAN on bank exchange rate, which was at the beginning of 2015 )
As explained for “Country.ua” in the press-service [of Ministry of Finance], these money to 11-year-old Daria and 17-year-old Christina gave mom. “This amount of cash are gifts from Natalie Yaresko to her children (two daughters) in equal parts”, – was said in response to our request.
Also, “Country” found out that the Minister of Finance with an annual income of 122 thousands UAH annually spends about 1.3 mln of UAH for education Dasha and Christina in the “Pechersk International School” ($ 25 thousand per pupil annually and this amount don’t include additional payments).”
Sourcehttp://strana.ua/…/8057-yaresko-podarila-dochkam-shkolnicam…

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Ukrainian TV channel “Ukraina” in their weekly research report “Sobitiya” [Events] admitted increasing robbery of Ukraine.
This videoreport was dedicated to the illegal export of scrap metal abroad, for the sake of the scrap metal being cut idle factories and other enterprises. Criminal groups that deal with the practical destruction of Ukraine’s industry have corrupt ties to officials from the Ministry of economic policy of Ukraine. Because in spite of the shortage of scrap metal inside Ukraine, this Ministry gives permission for the export of scrap metal from Ukraine. 70% of Ukrainian scrap metal is buying by Turkey.
The enterprises of ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy are experiencing an acute shortage of scrap metal and will be forced to cut production this year..
Such are the realities of the “new, democratic, successful” Ukraine.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzUJArf3kik

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The Ukrainian authorities are collecting billions UAH to restore the infrastructure of Donbass so that they will be able to steal these money from the state budget.

‘Kiev is counting billions aimed at restoring Donbass to steal them later. I do not believe in the fact that Kiev is seriously going to expend money on restoring. Only in case if Kiev destroyed all local residents and resettled the Residents from the Western Ukraine here. And it is unlikely,’ says the statement published on the official website of the Head of the Republic.
It should be noted that the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko being in the occupied part of Donbass at the end of March announced the creation of The Donator Fund with participation of the EU and USA to restore Donbass.

DONi News Agency
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ah, here we are
Sunday, April 10, 2016 – 17:25
There are 450 generals in Ukraine, and there are only 40 of them in the US army that is 5 times more than the Ukrainian one. Till this time Ukraine during 23 years hasn’t been engaged in war. What merits are these “generals” in uniforms covered with awards for? What are these awards for? For the bribery? For the lie? For the plundering? Most likely for all of this, otherwise they have never obtained such ranks and so many awards.

What is all this for? For their well-fed faces? For the indifference toward their own people and state? For some imaginary heroic deeds that are on paper? None of them were in the trench under fire. As well as their children, they have never worked, but have millions on accounts and real estate in Ukraine and abroad.

Talk about an object lesson in what not to do. Problem is most of us support a system of which Ukraine is an extreme example. The death of a country is one thing to talk about but the lesson is seldom learned unless it happens to us personally.

I think to myself that it could never happen here or to me. I am secretly glad that it’s happening over there to them. It’s a sort of bizarre entertainment. I’m talking about war as such. When it actually happens to me I’ll understand that “war is hell.”

I feel for the sacrificial victims in Ukraine, as it were, at a distance. If it can be outsourced it is kept at a safe distance. Still, deep down I know it could happen to me. That’s the feeling that must be defended against.

If you can’t tell by now, I’m from the Use Us of A, in the sunniest part. I love my comfort. Don’t tread on me. Somebody’s got to be the fuse that’s fried to save the system, and if I can help it, it ain’t gonna be me.

Lord have mercy. What am I saying? I love Ukraine for being a pressure cooker valve letting off steam so the whole boiler doesn’t blow. I’m sick. I admit it. I’m part of the problem. All glory to the hero’s who act out this tragedy so I can have my comedy.

Somewhere down the line I’m going to learn an object lesson or two. I’m not holding my breath but I can feel that slow train of events coming. I’ve got to get prepared for the worst while hoping for the best.

Damn. Sites like this are dangerous for exposing forbidden truths. Thanks for the reality orientation.

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